Example sentences of "[pers pn] came the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came the Hamlets a bit . |
| 2 | When I came the ambulance you see . |
| 3 | Beneath them came the cearls ( churls ) the heads of substantial rural households , many of whom were free . |
| 4 | Below them came the jurisdiction of the thegns , apparently already organised by the early eleventh century in the districts that , as Norman lordships , were to form the later rapes . |
| 5 | From the kitchen behind them came the sound of Mrs Brissett cleaning up vigorously and singing ‘ The Holly and the Ivy ’ . |
| 6 | With them came the realisation of new opportunities and the belief that higher education was no more a man 's privilege . |
| 7 | Behind them came the fat boy in glasses from Cranborne School . |
| 8 | Behind them came the yeomen and husbandmen and the better-off craftsmen , and at the rear and along the south wall sat the cottagers . |
| 9 | Along the road behind me came the country bus from Kouvola . |
| 10 | I can hold my own hand thank you came the reply and she did . |
| 11 | Their daughter had provided all the labour-saving devices : dishwasher , washing machine , spin-dryer , all housed in a disused still room near the back door , although until she came the Copleys had been reluctant to use them in case they could n't turn them off , visualizing the machines whirling away all night , overheating , blowing up , the whole rectory pulsating with an uncontrollable power . |
| 12 | oh yeah , she came the other week with somebody , I reckon he ill treated her |
| 13 | ‘ We came the back way , ’ said Doyle . |
| 14 | From behind her came the sleepy groan of a child . |
| 15 | But they came the closest to looking like husband and wife so far when Charles handed Diana his pen after signing the visitors ' book at an Anglican Cathedral . |
| 16 | They came the year after the big storm in 1947 and she decided she would turn their spare milk into cheese . |
| 17 | They came the Friday night to go for the midnight mail you know the one that comes to meet the boat . |
| 18 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 19 | so when , when they came the three of them |
| 20 | To him came the reports about the militia and its armaments , the loyalties and affiliations of the country gentry , the names of recusants , the affairs of Ireland , and the politics of foreign countries . |
| 21 | From inside the hut behind him came the sudden sound of gongs and drums being beaten and immediately a bare-breasted woman appeared in the doorway at the top of the stepped log , holding aloft a tall earthenware jar . |
| 22 | Behind him came the queen . |
| 23 | Behind him came the c. -in-c. and his staff . |
| 24 | Behind him came the Husayn twins . |
| 25 | ‘ He walked by the tree shade of sunny winking leaves , and towards him came the wife of Mr David Shehee MP . |
| 26 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 27 | He came the most appalling cropper . |
| 28 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 29 | Throughout the 1960's the Club continued to increase its membership and with it came the demand for better facilities backed up with plenty of suggestions ! |
| 30 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |